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Aug.13,1946.
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APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ÀNNULAR COMPRESSED WIRE MESH UNITSÍ
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Filed March 2, 1945'
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Patented Aug. 13,- i946
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autres stares PAT-enr orties
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APPARATUS
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rRooUolNG ` ANNULAR
ooMrREssEn WIRE MESH Um'rs
Otto H. York, Maplewood, N. J., assigner to Metal
Textile Corporation, West Orange, N. J., a cor
poration of Delaware
Application March. 2, 1945, Serial No.'580,696
8y Claims. (o1. 14o-'71)
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This invention relates to improvements in
4 is a similar View, showing the compression
plunger operative to retract the pushy linger
means for producing perforate or annular com
pressed wire mesh units or bodies of the general
means of the mandrel and as disposed to exert
compacting pressure upon the wire mesh fabric
within the mold cavity; and Fig. 5 is a similar
view showing the bottom closure means of the
type disclosed in my copending application for
United States Letters Patent Ser. No. 573,096, filed
January 16, 1945.
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This invention has for an object to provide im
mold cavity withdrawn, and the compression
plunger advanced to eject a completed compressed
proved molding apparatus for producing an an
nular or perforate self form sustaining unit or
body of wire mesh fabric folded upon itself .and
compressed into a consolidated body mass, where
in the fabric folds, plies and the wires thereof are
collapsed upon themselves and compacted into
wire mesh unity or body from the mold cavity.
Similar characters of reference are employed in
the above described views, to indicate correspond
ing parts.
The molding apparatus according to this inven
tioncomprises an upwardly open mold block I0
interentangled and interlocked relation; said ap
paratus comprising a mold block providing a
mold cavity, a mandrel to axially enter said mold
cavity, and a tubular compression plunger slidable
on said mandrel. and adapted to enter said mold
cavity to engage and compress the wire mesh
suitably mounted on a supporting base I I where
by to provide a mold cavity I2 of selected cross
` sectional shape and size. The bottom end of the
mold cavity is closed by suitable closure means.
In a preferred form thereof, said bottom closure
fabric material deposited therein; said mandrel 20 means comprises a withdrawable bottom member
including novel means operative to insert the
I3 corresponding in cross sectional shape to the
wire mesh fabric material into the mold cavity
cross-sectional shape of the mold cavity I2, so as
preparatory to the application thereto of com
to be adapted to be entered in the-bottom end of
pacting pressure by said compression plunger.
said cavity I2. Cooperative with said mold block
The invention has for a further object to pro 25 and its cavity is a movable mandrel I4, the lower
vide, in molding apparatus for the purposes
end of _which is pointed as at I5. Said mandrel
stated, a mandrel having yieldably and laterally
projected push ñnger means which, in initially
projected position, is adapted to engage wire mesh
I4 is disposed in axially aligned relation to the
mold block cavity I2, and is adapted to be moved
downwardly thereinto through the upper open
end thereof. Telescopically slidable over Said
mandrel Ill is a tubular compression plunger I6,
the same corresponding in cross-sectional shape
to that of the mold block cavity I2, in which it
may be slidingly entered. Said compression
plunger I6 is arranged to be moved independently
of the mandrel I4.
The mandrel Ill is provided with laterally pro
jectable and retractable push finger means, the
fabric material so as to carry the same into the
mold cavity when said mandrel is caused to enter
the latter; said push ñnger means being adapted
to be thereafter retracted by the descending com
pression plunger so as to be disposed flush with
the external surface of the mandrel, to form
therewith a continuous or uninterrupted cylindri
cal surface by which the internal diameter of a
produced annular compressed wiremesh unit or
body is determined and limited.
same comprising at least one push finger mem
Other objects of this invention, not at this time 40 ber housed in an opening or slot which opens out
more particularly enumerated, will be understood
wardly from the side of the mandrel body above
from the following detailed description of the
its lower free end. Said push linger member is
same.
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pivotally connected by its upper end Yto the man
An illustrative embodiment of this invention is
drel body, and is yieldably urged to outswung pro
shown in the accompanying drawing, in which: 45 jection from a side of the latter by spring means,
Fig. 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view
so that its outswung lower end provides a wire
of molding apparatus according to this invention,
mesh fabric engaging shoulder. Preferably, two
with the mandrel and its push finger means
or more such push ringer members are provided
poised to engage and enter wire mesh fabric into
for radial projection from the mandrel sides.
the mold cavity; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional 50 When the mandrel is of comparatively small
view, taken on line 2_2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a verti
cross-section, two oppositely `projectable push
cal longitudinal sectional View similar to thatl of
finger members provide a satisfactory construc
Fig. 1, but showing the mandrel and its push
tion, but in 1arge size mandrels more than two
ringer means lowered into the mold cavity to de
such push finger members, equi-spaced around
posit the wire mesh fabric within said cavity; Fig.
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the circumference of the mandrel would _be de
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sirable. In the illustrative form and arrange
ment of the push finger means as shown in the
accompanying drawings, the same comprises a
pair of oppositely disposed push linger members
Il and I8 arranged back to back in an elongated
laterally open housing slot i9 with which the
mandrel body is provided. The upper end por
tion of each push finger member is pivotally con
nected to the mandrel body by a. transverse pivot
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compression plunger I6 is thereupon caused to
descend along the mandrel and enter the mold
cavity I2. As said compression plunger I6 de
scends the mold cavity, it will slide downwardly
over the outswung push finger members I'I and
I8, and by such engagement therewith will push
back or retract the same, against the tension of
their outthrusting spring arms 222-23, into the
and 23 of which thrustingly bear against the
interior of the mandrel, thus withdrawing the
push shoulders 25 and disengaging the same from
the fabric F; said push finger members I'I and
I8 being thereupon held by the engaging com
pression plunger IB in flush relation to the ex
backs of the respective push finger members,
Each push-linger member isr preferably provided
ternal surfaces of the mandrel to form there
with _continuous surface areas conforming to the
with a longitudinal channel or groove 24 in which
vcylindrical surface of the mandrel, and free from
said spring member and its arms may be received,
when the push finger members are retracted into
the housing slot I9. Said spring member yieldably urges the push finger members I'I and I8 to
outswung positionswhereby their lower extremi
crevices or openings likely to snag wires of the
fabric.
As the compression plunger IS continues t0
descend the mold cavity I2, it engages the wire
mesh fabric formation which surrounds the man
pin 20. Supported within the housing slot I9,
intermediate said push finger members I1 and
I8, is a spring member 2 I , the respective arms 22
tiesform push shoulders 25 which jut angularly
drel I4 so as to exert thereupon an endwise ap
from the external sides of the mandrel body.
Suitable means `for limiting the outswinging
movement'of said'push ringer members is pro
vided;r for example, as shovvnpthe upper end wall
26 of the housing slot I9 may be suitably spaced
from the upper extremities of the push finger
members, so that the outer edges 2l of said ex
tremities,- by abutment upon said end wall 26, 30
plied collapsing and crushing pressure of selected
magnitude. Under the thus applied compressive
and crushing force, the longitudinal folds and
included contiguous plies of the Wire mesh fabric
are zigzagged into laterally extending, interen
tangled, and mutually interlocked additional
mandrel I4 and compression plunger I6, where
producing the described and relatively timed
movements of the mandrel, compression plunger
and mold bottom member.
It will also be understood that the mandrel
folds, the wire mesh loops of which are also in
terengaged and entangled, while at the end of
the compression stroke, the initial fabric forma
will arrest `outsvvinging movement of the push
tion has been crushed down and compressed into
fingers. 'I‘he outer faces of said push finger mem»
a completed self form sustaining, annular or per
bers Il and I8 are »of transversely arcuate con
forate body or unit B (see Fig. 4).
tours of the same radius as that of the mandrel
After the annular or perforate body or unit B
body, so that, when said push finger members are 35
has been thus produced, the mandrel I4 is up
retracted or pushed back into the housing slot I9,
wardly withdrawn, the mold bottom member I3
their outer faces will be aligned flush with the
may then be downwardly and outwardly with
external surfaces of the mandrel tc form there
drawn «to open the bottom end of the mold cavity,
with continuous surface areas conforming to the
40 whereupon a further downward movement may
cylindrical surfaceof the mandrel.
be imparted to the compression plunger I6,
In the use of the molding apparatus, a suitable
whereby to eject the finished unit or body B from
length and width of preferably knitted wire mesh
the mold cavity (see Fig. 5) .
fabric F is provided. The wire mesh~ fabric is
It will be obvious that suitable actuating
stretched and suitably held across the upwardly
open mouth of the mold block I0 below the raised ’ mechanism (not shown) may be provided for
upon the mandrel I4 is first caused to descend.
In descending upon the wire mesh fabric F, the
pointed end I5 of the mandrel is caused to pierce
said fabric so that the mandrel descends there- if
through until the push shoulders 25 of the out
swung push finger members Il and I3 abut said
fabric, whereupon the latter is released. 'I‘here
after, as -the mandrel continues to descend the
push linger member engaged fabric F will be car
ried along therewith into the mold cavity I2. As
the fabric F is thus moved into the mold cavity,
and its push linger means may be utilized to in
troduce into the mold cavity I2 an initial wire
mesh fabric formation which comprises winding
the fabric material around the raised mandrel
at a point below the outswung push finger means,
when such method of formation is desired to be
utilized as alternative to the mandrel pierced
fabric method above described.
Having now described my invention, I claim:
1. Molding apparatus for the purposes de
walls of said mold cavity and between the same Gil scribed comprising a mold body having an up
wardly open mold cavity, a mandrel adapted to
and said mandrel, not only upturned about the
those portions of the fabric body extending from
the mandrel are, by engagement with the side
mandrel, but are at the same time formed into a
be moved axially into and out of said mold cav
plurality of longitudinal folds or pleats f, whereby
ity, said mandrel having yieldably and laterally
projected push finger means spaced above its
mold cavity opposing end, and a compression
plunger slidjable over and along said mandrel
into and out of said mold cavity, whereby, when
moved toward said mold cavity, said plunger op
erates to retract said push finger means into
flush relation to the external surface of said man
drel.
2. Molding apparatus for the purposes de
scribed comprising a mold body having an end
the fabric body is disposed to produce an initial
formation of generally tubular shape, adapted to '1
occup-y the mold cavity space between the side
walls thereof and the inserted mandrel, where
upon descent of the mandrel is arrested (see Figs.
1 and 2) .
The bottom member I3 of the mold block is
provided with an axial passage 28 sized to fit and
receive the descending mandrel.
The fabric F having been thus deposited in
the described prefolded formation within the
mold cavity I2 and around .the mandrel I 4, the
wise open mold cavity, removable means to close'
the bottom end of said cavity, a mandrel adapted »
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to be moved axially into and out of said mold
cavity, said mandrel having a pointed free end,
said mandrel having yieldably and laterally pro
jected push ñnger means spaced above its
pointed free end, and a -compression plunger slid
able over and alongr said mandrel into and out
of said mold cavity, whereby, when moved to
ity, said mandrel having a pointed free end, said
mandrel being further provided with a trans
verse laterally open housing slot spaced above its
pointed free end, oppositely disposed push linger
members adapted to be housed in said slot, said
push finger members being pivotally connected
by ltheir upper end portions with said mandrel,
spring means for outswinging said push iinger
members for operative projection from the man
drel sides, means to limit the outsvvinging move
ment of said push ñnger members, and a com
pression plunger slidable over and along said
mandrel, whereby the operative down stroke of
. Ward said mold cavity, said plunger operates to
retract said push finger means into flush relation
to the external surface of said mandrel.
3. In molding apparatus for the purposes de
scribed, an axially movable mandrel having a lat
erally open chamber, push ñnger means adapted
to be housed in said chamber, spring means for
said plunger operates to retract said push finger
normally projecting said push ñnger means from 15 members into said housing slot and flush to the
said chamber, and a compression plunger slid~
external surfaces of said mandrel.
able over and along said mandrel, whereby thc
7. Molding apparatus for the purposes de
operative down stroke of said plunger operates
scribed, comprising a mold body having an end
to retract said push ñnger means into said
wise open mold cavity, removable means to close
chamber and flush to the external surfaces of 20 the bottom end of said cavity,- a mandrel adapt
said mandrel.
ed to be moved axially into and outI of said mold
4. In molding apparatus for the purposes de
cavity, said mandrel having a pointed free end,
scribed, an axially movable mandrel having a
said mandrel being further provided with a lat
transverse laterally open housing slot, oppositely
erally open chamber spaced above its pointed free
disposed push ñnger members adapted to be 25 end, a push ñnger means adapted to be housed
housed in said slot, said push ñnger members
in Said chamber, spring means for normally pro
being pivotally connected by their upper end por
jecting said push finger means from said cham~
tions with said mandrel, spring means for out
ber, and a compression plunger slidable over and
swinging said push ñngers for operative projec- .a . along said mandrel into and> out of said mold
tion from said mandrel sidesz and av compression
cavity, whereby, when moved toward said mold
plunger slidable over and along said mandrel,
cavity, said plunger operates to retract said -push.
ywhereby the operative down stroke of said
linger means into said chamber and ñush to the
plunger operates to retract said push finger
external surface of said mandrel.
members into said housing slot and flush to the
8. Molding apparatus for the purposes de
external surfaces of said mandrel.
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' scribed, comprising a mold body having an end
5. Molding apparatus for the purposes de
scribed, comprising a mold body having an up
wardly open mold cavity, a mandrel adapted to
be moved axially into and out of said mold cav
ity, said mandrel having a pointed free end, said 40
mandrel being further provided with a laterally
open chamber spaced above its pointed free end,
a push ñnger means adapted to be housed in said
chamber, spring means for normally projecting
Wise open mold cavity, removable means to close
the bottom end of said cavity, a mandrel adapt
ed to be moved vaxially into andout of‘said mold
cavity, said mandrel having a pointed free end,
said mandrel being further provided with a
transverse laterally open housing slot spaced
above its pointed free end, oppositely disposed
push ñnger members adapted t-o be housed in
'said slot, said push iinger members being pivot
ally connected by their upper end portions with
said mandrel, spring means for outswinging said
push ñnger members for operative projection
said push ñnger means from said chamber, and a
compression plunger slidable over and along said
mandrel into and out of said mold cavity, where~
by, when moved toward said mold cavity, said
, from the mandrel sides, means to limit the out
plunger operates to retract said push ñnger r swinging movement of said push ñnger members,
means into said chamber and ilush to the ex.
and a compression plunger slidable over and
ternal surface of said mandrel.
along said mandrel, whereby the operative down
6. Molding apparatus for the purposes de
stroke of said plunger operates to retract said
scribed, comprising a mold body having an up
push ñnger members into said housing slot and
wardly open mold cavity, a mandrel adapted t-o
flush
to the external surfaces of said mandrel.
be moved axially into and out of said mold cav 55
OTTO H. YORK.